Platypus

There is not, infat is subject to the limitations of Apple's API for setting handlers, which do not support passing in any data that an application could work with. If you wanted to, and have the time, I would recommend setting up a wrapper with https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus with applescript. Then you could make an alternate for whichever mode you please and set it as an opener using infat. Clunky but functional.

I recently used platypus [1] to turn a ruby script into a macos menubar app. Something for which I wish there was a windows variant... Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity. [1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus

> Which apps do you use actually it for? neovim, mutt, tig, weechat > That's what aliases are for (or you could rename the binary?)! Unfortunately, it's not that simple on macOS for app bundles. The human readable name of the app bundle really doesn't matter that much to the operating system -- it's the contents of Info.plist that matter. In order to have a separate app that can be Cmd+Tab'd to, you have to have a separate app bundle, separate app bundle identifier, etc. There's really not a way around it on macOS that I've seen. (And to be clear, aliases do work on the command line. I'm talking specifically about GUI apps - which is my primary method of separating my different activities. Terminal emulator tabs are not good enough.) This also doesn't solve the performance problems with any of the various GUI applications, nor does it sol

> I can use this method for any command line application Which apps do you use actually it for? > when I want to run Neovim, I start an app called Neovim That's what aliases are for (or you could rename the binary?)! Or you could just bind it to shortcut+E for Edit and forget the name of the editor as you'd never type it The last trick could also solve the Cmd+Tab issue as you could set it up to open the in-terminal-editor, and it'll always be faster vs tabbing P.S. By the way, do you know the app https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus that can generate app bundles on a Mac?

Random fact; this website is created and maintained by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson who also made Platypus (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus) and Sloth (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth) — software that Mac nerds might be familiar with. Sveinbjörn is a ball of energy that just radiates positives for human society.

They also develop an app for that I have used for years to open Burp Suite on Mac called Platypus — https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus Platypus allows you to create a Mac [dot]app wrapper around any type of scripts.

Awesome, I welcome any tools that simplify the GUI deployment process. I've built quite a collection of scripts that clean and process my company's domain-specific data. I once needed to share that with a data-scientist/computer-Luddite (sadly too common) who wasn't comfortable running CLI scripts. The solution I came up with used Platypus[0] to generate a lovely app wrapper where files could be dragged in. [0]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus